US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on Nov. 25 for "Asynchronous carry-ripple adder with majority or minority gates" (Oregon, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,481, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Asynchronous carry-ripple adder with majority or minority gates" was invented by Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Nabil Imam (Atlanta), Ikenna Odinaka (Durham, N.C.), Rafael Rios (Austin, Texas), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Asynchronous full-adder circuit is described. The full-adder includes majority and/or minority gates some of which receive two first inputs (A.t, A.f), two second inputs (B.t, B.f), two carry inputs (Cin.t, Cin.f), third acknowledgement input (Cout.e)...